portable space

The next day, Zhang Taiping took out the blade, sharpened it, and installed it on the sickle stand. The blade of this sickle is separated from the tool stand. Since the blade is made of hard steel for sharpness, it is extremely sharp when used but

Thin blades that are prone to chipping off the tip of the blade usually come with several blades, and the blades can be replaced at will.

Once everything is ready, it’s time to start cutting in the afternoon.

At this time, Cai Yazhi came over and said, "I suddenly remembered that I don't have any colorful striped cloth at home. If it suddenly rains heavily, it will be terrible. I'd better buy a piece of colorful striped cloth quickly."

After she reminded Zhang Taiping, he remembered that there was really nothing to protect him from the rain at home. He immediately rode to the town and bought a large colored striped cloth that was 20 meters long and 10 meters wide.

Grain can also be used to dry things.

In the afternoon, except for the old man who was persuaded to go back by Zhang Taiping, everyone, big or small, went into the ground.

In the whole wheat field, other people are already busy working. In fact, people like to replace the word "xia" in summer harvest with the word "grab". Rush to harvest, rush to harvest, has a sense of urgency in it. No one can care about the summer weather.

You can’t say for sure, maybe the sun is still shining brightly at the moment, but before the meal is finished, it turns into a storm again, or it’s not unheard of to even be basking in the sun and getting rained on at the same time.

Only when you grab the wheat field can you have some protection. At least you can use something to cover it when the rain comes. Hey, if the wheat is ripe and still in the field but suddenly it rains heavily, then you can only wait and wait for the corn to be harvested.

Together, the wheat grows all over the ground.

Zhang Taiping's land was two acres. The main people who played sickle were Zhang Taiping and Cai Yazhi. Although Xing Rushui had never done this kind of work, he seemed brave enough to give it a try. So the three of them cut it, and Fan Ming took three little ones.

The girl was sitting under a big tree making kidneys.

This sounds simple to say, just twist two handfuls of wheat straw together, but it is not as easy to do. At least Fan Ming cannot do it as well as Ye Ling.

Fan Ming couldn't help but asked in surprise: "Ling'er, have you done this job before?"

Ye Ling smiled and said, "After grandma got sick, I did all the harvesting by myself." At this moment, the ten-year-old girl's face showed a maturity that was different from her age.

"Ling'er, you are so amazing!" Fan Ming sighed, "I can't do anything."

Ye Ling smiled and stopped dwelling on this issue. There was really no need to show off, it was just forced by life. Otherwise, how could a person at an age who should have been studying in school be able to play with a sickle? Tell Fan Ming how to do it

Yaya and Tiantian had already run to the edge of the field to catch grasshoppers.

Among the three, Cai Yazhi was the most skilled in cutting wheat. She hugged her with her left arm and scratched the bottom with the sickle in her right hand. She heard a hiss and the large piece of wheat she was holding in her left hand fell down, and the stubble on the ground fell.

Low and neat, six or seven times will make a big bundle.

Zhang Taiping is also a person who has never been on the ground. He should not know how to use a sickle just like Xing Rushui, but his body coordination and learning ability are a bit abnormal. After watching Cai Yazhi's movements twice, he mastered the key.

He has wingspan and strength, and he can kill the boss with one strike of the sickle, quickly becoming the main force among the three. Although Xing Rushui is also a martial arts practitioner and has good physical coordination, he is not as abnormal as Zhang Taiping. He can barely cut with the sickle, but

She is not as smooth as Cai Yazhi.

Seeing that the pile that Cai Yazhi put was a bit small, Zhang Taiping said: "Enlarge the bundle a little, so it will be easier to load it on the car."

After Zhang Taiping and Xing Rushui found the key to cutting smoothly, Fan Ming and Ye Ling had insufficient supply of kidneys due to the efficiency of the three of them. So Zhang Taiping had to cut the kidneys while doing it.

At this time, three people, two men and one woman, came in from the field next to them. They put the water bottles on the ground and started cutting. The cutting speed was quite fast, but the cutting was a bit messy, and the fallen wheat branches were scattered everywhere.

The ground is the same, air has speed but no quality. Most of the scattered wheat ears are wasted without anyone paying attention, and besides, Zhang Taiping doesn't know these three people at all.

Just when she was about to ask, Cai Yazhi also raised her head and saw these three people, and said to Zhang Taiping: "These three people are the Mai Ke who were called by Wang Yangzhi's wife. Wang Yangzhi was working outside and could not come back, and their family's land is...

There were quite a few, so his wife invited three Mai customers."

Mai Ke is a person who helps others cut wheat during the busy summer season. These people are usually from other places. They cut wheat just to make money, and it is not their own. The purpose is speed, which is a bit wasteful.

"Oh? Mike." Zhang Taiping was a little surprised. With the widespread use of harvesters, less human effort is required. Mike is rarely seen anymore, and only in small places where such modern machines cannot go to the ground.

It can only appear in a mountain village. It makes people feel like they are back in the 1990s.

Zhang Taiping stood up, stretched out his body, and said to the two women: "Take a break and eat some watermelon." When Zhang Taiping came, he put two large watermelons in the cart, and he thought he was carrying water, and put it on the ground.

Ye Ling, who was under the big tree next to him, shouted, "Ling'er, bring the watermelon over here."

All four of them came over. Yaya was still holding a plastic bag with half a bag of grasshoppers in it. She showed it to Zhang Taiping. This was the result of the two of them this afternoon.

"What are you doing catching so many grasshoppers?" Zhang Taiping asked. He saw that some of the grasshoppers in the plastic bag were already dead.

"Go back and feed it to the chicks. After eating it, the little hen will lay three yellow eggs." Yaya said with a wink.

Zhang Taiping slapped his head. He was so funny that he had even forgotten this. Grasshoppers are a high-protein substance and are the chicks' favorite. He said to Yaya: "Call the other friends.

Let’s catch them together.”

Yaya shook her head and said, "Heizi and the others took them back to feed their own chickens."

Zhang Taiping said: "You can tell them to sell grasshoppers to our family for a penny." One penny is worth a penny, and a hundred grasshoppers are one yuan. A dollar is very attractive to four or five-year-old kids in the mountains.

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After hearing this, Yaya's eyes lit up and she felt that this was a good idea. However, Zhang Taiping was thinking about waiting for the wheat in the field to be harvested and driving the chickens and ducks at home to peck at the grasshoppers.

Seven people sat around and ate a big watermelon, which quenched their thirst and was delicious. After eating, they each performed their duties and started working.

Suddenly, a plump rabbit jumped out from Cai Yazhi's side with a loud noise, startling her. After the rabbit ran away, Cai Yazhi patted her chest and prepared to continue the operation, but she found a rabbit nest in front of her.

"Come and take a look, there is a nest of little rabbits here." She shouted to Zhang Taiping and Xing Rushui.

Zhang Taiping went over and took a look. There were six little rabbits in the nest that had just learned to crawl. They didn't even open their eyes. They felt something strange happening next to them. They all huddled up in the grass nest. Zhang Taiping's heart moved. He had always had it.

The idea of ​​​​raising some rabbits on the grassland in the space is just that I am too busy these days and have no time to do such idle things. I thought that meeting a nest of little rabbits would be an opportunity.

He said to Fan Ming and Ye Ling who were surrounding them: "Let's think of some way to bring these little rabbits back and raise them."

After hearing this, Ye Ling skillfully made a nest like a straw hat out of wheat straw, filled it with some soft grass, put six little rabbits in it, and gave it to Yaya and Tiantian for safekeeping temporarily.

One advantage of working in the afternoon is that the cooler you work, the more energetic you will be, and your efficiency will be higher and higher. In the evening, three people had cut off two-thirds of the two acres of land, and the remaining

The next third will take another half of the morning and it will be done.

"You go back first, I will do the rest." Zhang Taiping said as he looked at the enveloping night.

Cai Yazhi still had to cook when she got back, and then she had to bundle up and load the cart. When pulling, he was strong enough that no one else was behind to push the cart, so he didn't stay to help.

All five people left, but Ye Ling insisted on staying and helping Zhang Taiping. After Zhang Taiping tied them up, she moved the bundled wheat piles to the car on the ground. However, after all, she was small and weak, so it seemed that she could take one bundle at a time.

It was very difficult. The little body gritted its teeth and insisted on moving the bundle to the side of the car, which made people look a little distressed.

Zhang Taiping said: "You don't have to move, come over and talk to the master."

Naturally, I had to obey the master's words, and these wheat stacks were a bit too big and heavy for me to move, so I came over and squatted next to Zhang Taiping and watched him tie up the wheat stacks one by one.

"Do you want to go to school?" Zhang Taiping asked suddenly while tying wheat.

Ye Ling's eyes lit up after hearing this. He hesitated and struggled for a long time, and finally nodded lightly: "I think."

Zhang Taiping didn't know why she was worried, but as long as she wanted to go to school, it was fine: "Then when the new semester starts in September this year, I will send you and Yaya to school together. Have you ever gone to school before?"

Shaking his head: "There was no school in the village before, but grandma taught me Chinese characters and arithmetic."

Zhang Taiping nodded: "Then I will give you a test when your little sister comes back from the summer vacation to see what grade level you have reached and what grade level you are suitable for."

Ye Ling nodded happily.

After tying them up, they loaded a cart first. Ye Ling originally wanted to help push the cart from behind, but in this mountain, Zhang Taiping didn't trust her to walk behind alone, so he said, "You go ahead of me."

In this way, she will always appear within his sight range, and he will not worry about any accidents.

Pulling the cart to the big field, the whole threshing field was covered with wheat stacks. Only the area around his house was empty. After unloading the cart and planting, he asked Ye Ling to go back first. He went to the field to pull the wheat again alone.

It took four times to pull back all that had been cut today.